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Home automation by smart wheelchair for physically handicapped person using Arduino

In this paper, we have implemented a wheelchair which is helpful to handicapped persons for performing their activities in day to day life. The overall operation of the wheelchair is to facilitate handicapped person with safe movement. Also the addition, the feature is to control basic home appliances with the help of remote sensor from the wheelchair. This project uses AVR microcontroller Atmega328 circuit and Direct Current Motor to create the movement of the wheelchair with help of the mobile application. An additional feature is to control basic home appliances with the help of remote device which is very useful for the handicapped person to operate home devices.

Published by: Shardul S. Kulkarni, Atul B. Dhembare, Pratik D. Deshmukh, Vishranti M. Marathe, Mayur U. Yelpale, Pragtee B. Tathe

Author: Shardul S. Kulkarni

Paper ID: V4I2-1686

Paper Status: published

Published: April 9, 2018

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A study on cost and schedule analysis on high-rise building by using earned value management

High rise residential projects suffer from cost overrun and time overrun due to multiple reasons. The earned value management tool can act as a control to check project cost and schedule of any building construction. EVM is not implemented in many residential projects due to lack of understanding of importance. The main objective of my project is to apply EVM to a high rise residential project and to identify time overruns, cost overruns and probable schedule slippages in the projects through the parameters such as schedule variance, cost variance, schedule performance index and cost performance index. This EVM tool is very beneficial to track ongoing project and gives the performance of the project. The result of the project will show the difference between scheduled performance and actual performance of a project for a particular phase of the construction project. In this report, a study of an ongoing project of (G+3) APARTMENT is done. Calculation of construction data cost wise as well as month wise and activity wise plan value, actual cost and earned value for the project. From the study, I came to a conclusion that majority of the construction projects delayed due to time overrun and cost overrun.From the project parameters, it is found that the project is behind schedule as well as over budget. Original completion time for the project is 9 months but the project will take more two months for the final completion of the project, as well as estimated cost is also increased from planned cost. using this EVM tool to track an ongoing project is extremely beneficial and gives better results about the performance of the project.

Published by: Puli Pooja, Dr. R. S. N. Sastry, S. Swapna

Author: Puli Pooja

Paper ID: V4I2-1640

Paper Status: published

Published: April 9, 2018

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Bio-CNG production potential from locally available biomass

Today Mumbai is facing the problem of waste accumulation in different areas and limitation of waste disposal sites. These wastes are dumped in the form of big heaps. The degradation of these waste starts after few days. The process of degradation is aerobic at outer layer and anaerobic at inner layers. Due to these reactions, putrescible gases are come out and causes the health hazard. The Bio-CNG plant gives the best solution for this problem. It uses the vegetable waste as raw material and converts it into a high calorific value fuel. Hence it minimizes the waste accumulation and also solves the problem of energy crisis at the same time. In this study 6kg waste is digested under controlled environment condition n a mesophilic temperature range(30°C-45°C) for 26 days to obtain Biogas. The Biogas so obtained contains CH₄, CO₂, H₂S, and Moisture content. The presence of CO₂, H₂S, and Moisture content in Biogas is considered as impurities as it reduces the calorific value of fuel and hence removed using three scrubber units to obtain the composition of natural gas.These three scrubber units contained Sodalime, Silica gel, and Tri-ethylene glycol to remove CO₂, H₂S and moisture content respectively. The Bio-CNG obtained above contains more than 85% of CH₄ which has high calorific fuel value. These Bio-CNG can be used as automobile fuel, for cooking as well as for power generation. It can also be considered an alternative fuel option against the limited stock of conventional fuels like coal, petroleum etc in future.

Published by: Reetika Sharan, Sasane V. V

Author: Reetika Sharan

Paper ID: V4I2-1639

Paper Status: published

Published: April 9, 2018

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Design of fixture for floor grid of Asphalt Paver

A fixture is the most effective tool used to maintain the tolerance and precision in manufacturing industries. This project revolves around the development of fixture to manufacture the chassis of asphalt paver vehicle from L&T construction equipment ltd. The design of the fixture is optimized to provide the company to build the chassis more effective and precise with the knowledge acquired during the literature survey. The fixture is set up on the dowel-pin platform. The project will give an overall development of a fixture from the design process till the scaled prototype going under multiple iterations of analysis through Finite Element Analysis Method. The parameter or the constraints in the design are studied thoroughly such that no failure of the fixture occurs during high volume manufacturing in the company. The end product will be designed considering parameter which could be affected by various shop floor activities. Also carried out tolerance stack-up analysis to find out whether the introduced precision tolerance at the component level is meeting the assembly level functional requirement. The material selected for fabricating the fixture is specified for frequent periodic usage and open environment. The final product will meet all the requirements for large volume manufacturing in L&T construction equipment ltd.

Published by: Anup GM, Nikhilesh J, Nandan Gowda AR, CM Aiyappa, Chethan K S

Author: Anup GM

Paper ID: V4I2-1622

Paper Status: published

Published: April 9, 2018

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Deadlock recovery and mutual exclusion with atomic operations of cloud storage

While using consumer electronic devices consumers continue to produce and spend a large amount of data. To store consumer’s data, a huge volume of storage is needed. A cloud-of-cloud which is a virtual cloud storage service using heterogeneous public cloud storage services can be a solution. To support concurrent accesses for multiple consumers and devices, a mutual exclusion in a cloud-of-cloud is necessary. From the base paper, they proposed a mutual exclusion method for concurrent access in a cloud-of-clouds. The proposed method includes an atomic operation for cloud-of-cloud a deadlock recovery and a race condition control. To evaluate the proposed method, we modified two modules of saving me which is a cloud-of-clouds storage service system with experiments on the implemented system, we found out to the optimal number of files in a file table and the deadline time for deadlock avoidance. The proposed method does need not only any server system but also any communication between clients. We confirm that the proposed method provides mutual exclusion features to deadlock avoidance.

Published by: N. Munesswari, S. Ishwarya, M. Karthikpriya, A. M. Senthilkumar, M. Saravanakumar

Author: N. Munesswari

Paper ID: V4I2-1399

Paper Status: published

Published: April 9, 2018

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Characterization of bioactive components from petiole of two varieties of colocasia seen in Kerala

Colocasia is a genus of flowering plant belongs to the family Araceae native to South Eastern Asia and Indian subcontinent. Some species are widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions. Different varieties of Colocasia are seen in Kerala of which Colocasia aquatilis is labeled as an aggressive weed that grows in dense clusters along lake shores and riverbanks, displacing native shoreline vegetation. . Qualitative analyses of two samples are done using crude extract from both the varieties. Antimicrobial activity of wild variety is evaluated in both gram positive and gram negative bacteria using pure extract. Even though both comprise the same genus Colocasia, significant differences were seen in the result of these varieties. In our work , we have used two common varieties of Colocasia one is edible variety Colocasia gigantea and other one a a weed Colocasia aquatilis

Published by: Rincy Susan Raju

Author: Rincy Susan Raju

Paper ID: V4I2-1259

Paper Status: published

Published: April 9, 2018

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